MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2019 Regular Session

To: Public Health and Human Services

By: Representative Sykes

House Bill 645

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-60-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF "EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN-ADVANCED" FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN LAWS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 41-60-11, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     41-60-11.  As used in Sections 41-59-29 through 41-59-37 and Sections 41-60-11 and 41-60-13, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:

          (a)  "Advanced life support" means a sophisticated level of prehospital and interhospital emergency care which includes basic life-support functions including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), plus cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation, telemetered electrocardiography, administration of antiarrhythmic agents, intravenous therapy, administration of specific medications, drugs and solutions, use of adjunctive ventilation devices, trauma care and other authorized techniques and procedures.

          (b)  "Advanced life-support personnel" means persons other than physicians engaged in the provision of advanced life support, as defined and regulated by rules and regulations promulgated by the board.

          (c)  "Emergency medical technician-advanced" means a person specially trained in an advanced life-support * * *modules, numbers I, II and III as developed for the United States Department of Transportation under Contract No. DOT‑HS‑900‑089, as training program authorized by the Mississippi State Board of Health.

          (d)  "Emergency medical technician-paramedic" means a person specially trained in an advanced life-support training program authorized by the Mississippi State Board of Health.

          (e)  "Emergency medical technician-paramedic critical care" means a person who (i) is licensed as a Mississippi Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic, and (ii) has successfully completed a critical care paramedic program recognized by the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and the Mississippi State Department of Health.

          (f)  "Medical control" means directions and advice provided from a centrally designated medical facility staffed by appropriate personnel, operating under medical supervision, supplying professional support through radio or telephonic communication for on-site and in-transit basic and advanced life-support services given by field and satellite facility personnel.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2019.

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